Legal Opinion
United States v. Roland William Dube, Jr.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 30, 1975No. 75-1034PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McENTEE, Circuit Judge.
Defendant Dube was tried on an indictment charging him with robbery of a federally insured bank. He did not deny that he committed the robbery, but introduced the testimony of a psychiatrist and a psychologist that he was insane when he committed the offense. The prosecution did not present expert opinion evidence but relied instead on cross-examination and the lay testimony of two bank tellers and Dube’s accomplice to rebut his case. Dube moved for a judgment of acquittal on the ground that the prosecution had failed as a matter of law to sustain its burden of proving…
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